Calculators for people who run infrastructure

Sizing backups, planning subnets, dimensioning clusters. The arithmetic sysadmins do on whiteboards and napkins, turned into precise, shareable tools. Everything runs in your browser; the numbers you type never leave your machine, and nothing sits behind a paywall.

Tool 01 · Backup & Storage

Backup retention & sizing calculator

Model GFS retention against data growth, change rate and deduplication engine, global, per-copy or raw, and get 1/3/5-year capacity projections with CSV export.

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Tool 02 · Networking

Subnet calculator

Network, broadcast, host range, netmask and wildcard for any IPv4 CIDR. With the binary laid out bit by bit, plus VLSM splitting into smaller subnets.

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Tool 03 · Storage

RAID & ZFS capacity calculator

Usable capacity, efficiency, fault tolerance and URE rebuild risk for RAID 0/1/5/6/10 and RAIDZ1/2/3. With a comparison of every layout on your drives.

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Tool 04 · Backup & Networking

Backup window & bandwidth calculator

Transfer time for any data size on any link, with realistic utilization, and the bandwidth you need to fit a backup window. 100 Mbps to 100 GbE compared.

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Tool 05 · Kubernetes

Kubernetes cluster sizing calculator

Nodes needed from pod requests, system reserves, pod-per-node limits and N+1 failover. With a comparison across node shapes.

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Tool 06 · Virtualization

VM consolidation & overcommit calculator

Hosts needed for your VM fleet at any vCPU:core ratio, RAM-honest, with N+1 failover and a guide to which ratio suits which workload.

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Tool 07 · Cloud & Infrastructure

Cloud vs on-premise cost calculator

Monthly and 5-year TCO with every rate editable. Compute, storage, egress vs capex, power, colo and support. No vendor propaganda.

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Tool 08 · Storage

Ceph capacity calculator

Usable space for replicated and erasure-coded pools, with full ratio and self-heal headroom. What the cluster can really store, not the raw number.

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Why these tools exist

Vendor sizers are marketing funnels, spreadsheets get lost, and most online calculators were last touched in 2010. These are built by a working backup and infrastructure engineer, model the math honestly, including where it's an approximation, and every result is a shareable URL you can drop in a ticket, a design doc or a forum answer.